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My first internship experience was with a large manufacturing company. The first couple of weeks were a little shaky because the person I was working for had never had an intern, so he didn't seem to know quite what to have me do. Plus being my first internship I was a little shy and nervous about asking too many questions.
But after the first couple weeks things got going good. I was given real projects to do and learned a lot from quite a few people in the department.

I learned two really important things during my internship on top of the technical knowledge - I didn't want to work in manufacturing and I didn't want to work for a large company. These lessons were very beneficial to learn while in college, as opposed to after having moved everything to a new city for a job/company that you later decide is not for you.